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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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bingo

Games
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Bingo is a game of chance in which players mark numbers on cards as they are randomly called, aiming to complete a pattern.

Detailed Definition
Bingo appears in poetry as a communal and often ironic pastime of chance and waiting. In modern literature it represents the shared anticipation of random selection. Poets use its calls and cards to illustrate themes of collective hope, the marking of fate, and the sudden shout of victory that interrupts ordinary time.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bingo’s called numbers and marked cards appear in poems of communal waiting and sudden shout; Contemporary verse lets the hall of bingo stand for shared hope against long odds; “Bingo!” broke the silence like a bell of ordinary grace” illustrates the public revelation of luck; Educational examples present the game as democratic chance in fluorescent light; Poets use its cards when the ordinary citizen waits for fortune’s voice.
Additional Notes
Bingo’s called numbers and communal marking turn pure chance into a shared and almost liturgical event. The sudden shout of success punctuates the waiting and therefore supplies poets with a ready rhythm of anticipation and release. Classroom discussion can explore how the game democratizes fortune while still preserving its indifference. Related lottery forms include lotto and keno. The term works well when the poet needs ordinary voices and fluorescent light rather than the elegance of the casino.
Also Known As
housey-housey lotto
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